Опубликовано в журнале Дружба Народов, номер 6, 2008
REMINISCENCE OF TBILISI
Two memoir essays and a selection of poems presented in this issue are dedicated to Tbilisi — the city which many poets derived their inspiration from. In the 1990-s Tbilisi has experienced its really damned days. Our publication is intended to remind of the genuine image of the “carpet metropolis”.
OLEG ZDAN. Necessary to Bear.
Belorussia… We know a lot about the president of the neighbouring state, about the peculiarities of the regime there, but how do ordinary people live under these circumstances? How do they feel, what do they think, what do they hope for in their everyday life? Exactly about this tells the old friend and author of our magazine Oleg Zdan in his lively, sometimes sparkling with humour short stories gathered under the significant title “Necessary to Bear”.
ALES RYAZANOV. With a Lightning in the Heart. Versets.
The versets of Belorussian poet Ales Ryazanov are not just verses. They are short parables, poems or novels, very capacious in their emotional-philosophic content, aphoristic, sometimes bearing a mystery inside and sometimes addressing to the nowadays reality which is the Life itself.
SERGEY SOLOVYEV. Real Metaphysics of Happiness.
“Any dependence is a display of slave psychology. But dependence today is quite a normal state for a human being. Just there are different kinds of dependence”, — contends in his conversation with poet Sergey Solovyev the Indian guru swami Amrit, Russian by birth, painter by occupation, who has endured imprisonment in the Soviet times and is been living in India for the recent fifteen years.
OLGA MYAEOTS. Opening Anew.
The novel “Into Smithereens” written by Henry Parland 80 years ago won the fifth place in the rating of the best books of the year fixed by the leading German literary critics in 2007. Who after all is he, the writer turned into a legend? This is the subject of the article by the translator and critic Olga Myaeots.